Topics discussed include: brief overview of the history of numerical general circulation models from about 1950-1970, centering on Smagorinsky's group, Syukuro Manabe, the U.S. Weather Bureau, The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the General Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton, the interactions of weather predictions and climate change concerns, especially carbon dioxide warnings (greenhouse effect), the National Research Council, and work with Kurt Byron on developing oceanographic study models.